Dacă - Rudyard Kipling

Joseph Rudyard Kipling ( * 30 decembrie 1865 Bombay, India - † 18 ianuarie, 1936 ) poet şi prozator britanic, laureat al Premiului Nobel pentru Literatură în anul 1907. Este celebru prin povestirea sa pentru copii "Cartea Junglei" (1894), romanul indian de spionaj "Kim" (1901), poemele "Gunga Din" (1892) şi "If— " (1895), numeroase schiţe şi nuvele. În 1934 i s-a acordat, alături de William Butler Yeats, Premiul Gothenburg pentru Poezie. În timpul vieţii, a fost considerat, îndeobşte, poet şi i s-a oferit un titlu nobiliar şi postul de poet laureat ambele refuzate de Kipling.
Poezia "Dacă" este considerata de multi ca fiind una dintre cele mai frumoase poezii ale lumii, ea reprezentand un fel de Ghid pentru cizelarea si slefuirea fiintei umane.

IF... by Rudyard Kipling

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you
But make allowance for their doubting too,
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream--and not make dreams your master,
If you can think--and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings--nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much,
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And...which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!

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[Thereisonlythemoment]

shantiliu - Thank you so much for sharing this with me. Like you said one of the most beautiful Poems in the world regardless of the language it is written or spoken in. I adore Kipling and the words are so simple and so profound. Namaste.

[shantiliu]

@Thereisonlythemoment , I recommend you Rabindranath Tagore too. His poems are incredible beautiful. 

[georgel19841]

he was gay

[shantiliu]

and? where is the problem? the value depends by sex, religion and sexual orientation? no way, value is over all these! as a plus, I never heard about that. for me doesn't have any effect bcz his opera has a HUGE VALUE!

[danutmerisor]

""Poezia "Dacă" este considerata de multi ca fiind una dintre cele mai frumoase poezii ale lumii, ea reprezentand un fel de Ghid pentru cizelarea si slefuirea fiintei umane.""

Adevărat.

[elfutadore5656]

EXTRAORDINAR video, versurile si imaginile dar si muzica de pe fundal.......... te invidiez shantililu :)))

[CARMENSERBAN1]

O adevarata lectie de viata pt noi toti!!

[shantiliu]

sorry, we have different opinion about what I tried to do here. you can't recommend me to become more professional bcz the professional has no rules, just imagination. If I copy a style from somebody, then I can't be original. Art is free in creation and beauty is not an absolute truth in it! good luck to u too!

[shantiliu]

Sorry to hear such opinions. means you have not understood anything. is a video about a famous poem. What would you have wanted to write poetry in info without images associated with the lyrics? you are embarrassing!

[shantiliu]

Me too, dear Liza. His poems are exceptional

[dearmalika]

I admire Rudyard Kipling so much, thank you for posting this poem !